The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-04-15
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.


The following are the Milwaukee grain
quotations: Wheat-No. 2 T40771Sc.
Corn-No. 2, 361493615c. Oats-No. 2, 305Sc.
Rye-No- /, 591ac. Barley-No. 2, 56c.
W. P. Lynde, Jr., of Milwaukee, died the
other night in the insane asylum.
The builders of the bridge across Stur-
geon bay contemplate celebrating the
completion of that structure in an appro-
pirate manner. The time has not yet been
defnitiyely fixed but it will be during the
month of Aprh, after the lumbermeu come
from the camps on the west shore.
The iron mines in the State will ship
375, 900 tons of ore this season, it is ex-
pected.
c. A. Chaplin has been elected president
OF the Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce.
The tobacco shed of Hugh Martin, in
Magnolia, Rock County, was burned few
days ago. together with the tobacco crop
OF two years.
George Shonat, pioneer resident Of
Galesyille, Trempealeau County, died the
other day, aged eighty years.
The saw-mills in La Crosse and vicinity
are running night and day.
A specimen of Crawford County mineral
has been assayed in Colorado with the fol-
lowing result: 1t will yield 81 worth Of
silver to the ton, with quite a per cent Of
platina, which metal is worth $50 per
ounce.
Mrs. Gort, of Eau Claire mother of one
OF the proprietors Of the Star House, while
walking on the Milwaukee & st. Paul track
recently was struck by train and fatally
injured.
A man giving the name of G.. B. Miller,
and pretending to be book-keeper for the
fuel firm of H. G. Dodge & Sons, of Madi.
son. victimized numerous parties in that
city the other day out of sums ranging
from Sl2 to $50 by means OF forged checks
bearing the name H. G. Dodge & Sons. The
sharper evaded the police and left the city,
presumably for Chicago.
The case against Albert Morsenger
charged with melting the May riots, was
dismissed in the municipal court at Mil
waukee few days ago, and IN the case of
Carl simon another rioter, Judge Sloan
granted additional time to the district at.
torney to inquire into the matter.
The novel wager of fifty dollars, made be-
tween Joseph Benedict, wellknown Mil
waukee tenor, and August Luening, that
the former can not eat twenty five pound
turkey in twenty four hours, is to be de-
confidence of his ability to dispose of the
bird in accordance with stipulations agreed
upon.
Miss Mary Belle Russell and James O..
Dombers, deafmutes, were married at
Eau Claire few days ago.
The superintendent of the State Fish
Commission received recently five thous-
and eggs of the brown trout of Germany.
They will be raised at the Madison
hatchery.
The charges against DR.. Hare, superin-
tendent of the Milwaukee County Insane
Asylum, were not sustained by the State
Board of Charities and Reforms.
Jefferson Buckmaster, aged about thirty
five years, farmer of the town of Haney,
Crawford County, was found dead in bed
the other morning, having died of heart
disease. He leaves wife and three chill
dren.
A Free Labor Bureau has been opened
by the Madison Young Mems Christian
Association.
The Manitowoc Times says: GA few
farmers of this county, who are we'll TODD,
have let their cattle starve to death rather
than buy feed for them. A farmer in
Meme, who could raise 5000 any day,
and about twenty more so weak that they
had to be lifted up by the tail, as they
could not get up alone"
Postmaster Pepper, of Boscobel, Grant
County, was arrested recently and taken
to Madison. He was charged wi tn misap-
propriating Government funds.
The earnings of the Milwaukee, Lake
Shore & Western road for 1886 were So
NI7 fo,, A1,o,
year.
A sharper claiming to hail from ST. Paul,
Mimi, and giving his name as G.. FL. Stew
art, swindled each of forty laborers out of
one dollar at La Crosse the other day. He
had advertised for fifty laborers at $1.75 a
day, and had collected one dollar from
each of the applicants, when he disap-
peared
Couples who will consent to be married
at the Rock County fair next fall will be
given 800 worth of presents.
Men from the logging camps were arriv-
ing at Eau Claire few days ago in large
numbers. The logging season in the Chip
pewa, Black and st. Croix districts was
prolonged ten days longer than usual by
reason of cold weather. The winter was
the most successful ever known for log
ging operations.
The other morning the dwelling house of
Mrs. Burge, widow, at Neilsville, was
consumed by fire. Loss, $1,000; insur-
ance, 800.
John Johnson, of GAINESVILLE, railroad
employee, was killed in Chicago the other
night by being run over by switch en-
CINE.
Most of the fourteen hundred Winnebago
Indians in this State live in Jackson and
Adams Counties, where nearly all Of them
own homesteads.
The Supervisors of Oneida County have
appointed commissioners to estimate the
standing pine and give description of all
lands, to be used us basis of taxation.
James Kronin, loborer employed in
the new foundry of Allis & Co., at Milwau.
kee, fell from the building the other after
noon and broke his neck.
John Henderer, a riverman and log.
driver, was drowned in the Little Eau
Pleine river near Hutchinson, Marathon
County, few days ago
Reports come from Madison that prop.
erty for extensive docks at Manitowoc has
been purchased by the Burlington & North,
ern road.
The flax company organized at Green
Bay recently received carload of seed
from Antwerp, Belgium, and it was being
given to farmers
George Wilson, the notorious crook, who
went to Milwaukee on his way from Min
nesota to the South, with che intention of
transacting wholesale business in his
line, and was captured after committing
burglary in Marble Hall, pleaded guilty
the other day, and was sentenced to eight
cen months Imprisonment.
The synod of Wisconsin has requested
all Presbyterian churches to assess their
members thirty cents each for the benefit
of the Galesville (Trempealeau County,
| university.
The only contest of general interest in
Milwaukee at the recent election was on
the judgeships of the circuit and SUI
peror courts for the county The
Republicans and Democrats united on
candidates for both offices, and were
successful D. H. Johnson (Fusion)
was elected over N S. Murphy Nabor)
for circuit judge, and George Il. Noyes
(Fusion) was elected over Peter Rupp LA
howl foy. I'D